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Soldiers arrest Zelaya during a predawn raid and force him out of the country at gunpoint. He is flown to Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas...
...were each trained for five years for such missions, but this is their first time in the field overseas. "Sometimes when you are doing the training, you forget that it's for something real, says Hidehiro Murase, the president of the Rescue Dog Trainers' Association of Japan, who had flown in with the animals on the night of Oct. 2. "And then you come to a place like this, and realize it's a very real situation." Suddenly, Eros sniffs intently and turns inquiringly toward Murase. His trainer rushes forward. This time, it turns out to be nothing. But Eros...
...Zelaya denies that he defied the Supreme Court. (The matter was being appealed, he says.) But, like the rest of the hemisphere, he asks, "Even if I did, why wasn't I charged and tried in court instead of removed before dawn by the threat of soldiers' bullets and flown away? The army chiefs say it was because I was a communist, that Chavez and Fidel Castro were coming to take over the country. But in fact I was pursuing social policies, like raising the minimum wage, that our economic elite found threatening...
...wire. After a few foreigners were kidnapped and shot by drive-by gunmen last year, it is now considered foolhardy to walk around the streets of Kabul. Booze is no longer sold openly. Many, but not all, of the brothels were shut down and the girls rounded up and flown back to China...
...week later, the thunder of large military helicopters returning from rescue missions still boomed through this small town - a locus of Morakot relief efforts - every 10 minutes. With each landing, workers raised a banner with the name of the village it had flown in from, as family members, lined up outside classrooms at Cishan Junior High School, hoped to see their loved ones emerge. "I used to cry every time I saw a helicopter," says Lamada Isehmasan, after waiting for his parents and brother to be ferried for five days. "Now, I'm numb." (See pictures of Taiwan's typhoon...